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The chief reason moderate congressional Republicans voted to impeach Clinton is that he got cocky after the election.
Just over a century ago, at 207 Grand Avenue, Milwaukee, a cocky teen-ager hung a shingle outside his door:
Davis' writing assumed a pared down pop sensibility on tunes like "Stuff," from Miles in the Sky . It's a cocky funk tune that wouldn't be worth its 17 minutes if the soloists weren't Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter.
The scenarios: Bush could lose his temper, be skewered by Forbes-sponsored ads, remain hopelessly fuzzy on the issues, be resented for his vast campaign (and inherited) resources, get cocky, fall apart in an early primary, or be felled by a scandalous skeleton rattling in his closet.
About your comment in the June 16 "Today's Papers" about the "inordinate" amount of coverage that Al Dunlap's firing got: This guy has become a corporate symbol--arrogant, cocky, boasting he can turn a company around in seven months when others need years, eschewing corporate jets for coach seats.